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Frutigier Aero, Hauntology, Cultural Stagnation

• Had that idea with Alex Katz and stagnation. CIA and art? Hauntology (Fisher) thesis on exploration of futures that didn’t come to pass.

• Frutigier Aero and other concept design schemes from 2000s before end of history was baked in. Resurgence in nostalgia for it a result of dialectics - the future that didn’t happen in opposition to a future currently being lived.

• Screenshots of Youtube For You page w/ all the Breakbeat/2000s jungle stuff. Jungle nostalgia as the ultimate pining for a future of Britain that never came to pass. Indulgence in nostalgia as a panacea.

• Generative art as the apex of nostalgia. Art produced through a combination of motifs present pre-2025. A total “freezing” of cultural state.

• LLMs also ultimate objects of hauntology.

• I am not perfect, here are the haunts I haunt. – Jungle – Mid 2000s panera, textbooks about American multiculturalism – Mind 2000s SF BoingBoing, TechnoOptimism